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senate is returning to session after a whole month off. summer vacation and all that. they re now tasked with addressing the multiple national crisis this nation faces. the coronavirus pandemic that s killed over 660,000 americans. a climate that is rapidly getting worse with massive fires burning out of control on the west coast and the hurricane ravaged southeast and east coast. regular viewers of the show will know that democracy itself is also in crisis. just this past week, texas gop governor greg abbott signed new voting restrictions into law. they ban ballot drop boxes, 24 hour voting and give now authority to parties and poll watchers. with all of these urgent crisis demanding their attention, do democrats get it? do they understand what needs to be done? and get that time is running out? well, tonight, i ve got good news and bad news. for once, let s start with some good news. after months of negotiations led in part by joe manchin, nbc news is reporting tonigh ....
to avoid humanitarian disaster. our guests this week. the guardian columnist polly toynbee, mina al oraibi, the editor in chief of the gulf based the national newspaper, and still suitably distanced, here in the studio with me is the bbc s business editor simonjack. welcome to you all. so to begin with, boris johnson s government has announced the largest tax increases in the uk for decades to try to fix the nhs and the social care sector. some say that the £36 billion it will raise over three years won t solve the crisis. other critics say that the tax rises are unfairly distributed. let s begin this conversation with polly. to what extent, polly, do you believe that what the government is proposing will solve the problem with social care, which we have been discussing in this country for years? yes, government after government has failed to grasp it. at least this government has come up with something, but the something isn t nearly enough and it doesn t begin to be ....
now time for dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. i m martine croxall. this week, our discussion is all about money. here in the uk, the government has announced the biggest set of tax rises since the second world war. the imf, the world bank and in fact banks everywhere are trying to decide whether they will release afghanistan s frozen assets and thereby try to avoid a humanitarian disaster. our guests this week. the guardian columnist polly toynbee, mina al oraibi the editor in chief of the gulf based the national newspaper, and still suitably distanced here with me in the studio is the bbc s business editor simonjack. welcome to you all. so, to begin with, borisjohnson s government has announced the largest tax increases in the uk for decades to try to fix the nhs and the social care sector. some say the £36 billion it will raise over three years won t solve the crisis. other critics say that the tax rises are unfairly distributed. let s begin t ....
too many, never even found. to never forget who did it. who could forget? i am haunted still every time i look at the sky downtown. i still see the collapse. i feel what went through my body as the towers came crashing down. being covered in pulverized powder. what filled my eyes, ears, overwhelmed all my senses. it was a day that you could never forget. in fact, to kind of remember it i keep some of it. actually forgot it tonight but i keep some of it right next to my desk. my senior producer tyrese just handed it to me. i keep it because not just simply to remember but because of what is in here, of what it meant. what it meant about us, about the people i would never find, the people i would never see again, the people i would never forget. i remember it all. so many of us do. but never forget the call was for more than what was lost. we would have never forgotten what was found. and this reminder is so important right now that it is worth discussing because i ll tel ....
phone and relax just a little. fitz, you are a legend in this business, and we re going to miss you, not as a colleague, but as a friend. thank you. the news continues. let s head to chris for cuomo prime time. he was a good man. i was lucky enough to work with him at abc. strong, smart, and will be missed. one of the best. j.b., have a good weekend. i m chris cuomo, welcome to prime time. we promised we would never forget 9/11. now, this is not a topic that i like to talk about. but tonight we have to. i think we have to talk about what never forget meant. because it wasn t a call to simply remember the event or who was lost or how many 2,977, most here in new york. too many never even found. to never forget who did it. who could forget? i am haunted still every time i look at the sky downtown. i still see the collapse. i feel what went through my body as the towers came crashing down. being covered in pulverized powder. what filled my eyes, ears, overw ....